Dudley Winter Ales festival on its way.

Dudley Town Hall is getting ready to host the Dudley Winter Ales festival, we meet up with organisers.

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00:00Christmas is nearly coming, Dudley Town Hall, it's that lovely time of the year

00:04for a little sip of beer. What's happening Matt? Yeah we're running the

00:07Dudley Winter Owls Fair, it's run by CAMRA, the Campaign for Real Owl. We're

00:12running at the Town Hall in Dudley Town Centre on St. James's Road from Thursday

00:17until Saturday where you'll be able to try over 90 choices of beer or cider.

00:24Wow, what's the favourite tipple that you'll be looking forward to coming to the fest?

00:28I think it's gonna have to be Snowflake, one of our favourite choices, it

00:32was the winner of the Great British Beer Festival Winter. Yeah. So we've

00:37got lots on, we're keeping some back for Friday and Saturday, so if you aren't

00:41able to make Thursday, hopefully there'll be some choices for you there as well.

00:45Cool, and winter ales tend to be darker ale, is that right? Absolutely yeah, lots

00:49of dark ales, but there's still a variety of choices, so whatever your

00:53tastes, I'm sure we can meet it. Yeah. Is there any entertainment on at all? We're

00:58running entertainment both Friday during the evening and Saturday as well, a

01:03range of bands, we've got a great chorus appearing who were with us last year,

01:07they're with us on Friday night. Thursday, a bit of a quiet night, but at

01:10least still there's choices of food throughout. It's a proper good annual

01:14fixture on the calendar, how many years have you been going here at the Town Hall?

01:17At least 23 years, we have run at Netherton Arts Centre many years back,

01:22but this has been our fixture for many years at the Town Hall. It's a great

01:25venue, everyone always says how much they enjoy it and we're really looking forward

01:29to running it. And it's just a great opportunity to have a little sample of

01:32new drinks isn't it, you know, there's a bit of everything going on, isn't it, some

01:35interesting flavours. Absolutely and the great thing is you can order drinks in

01:39pints, halves or thirds. Perfect. For me, thirds are really good because at least it

01:45gets you to try more samples, so more of the good stuff without getting too

01:49squiffy. And how are we doing in the Black Country Brewing? There's been a

01:52couple of microbreweries closed that I've heard of, but we've just been

01:55featuring local breweries in the Express and Star. We've still got a healthy

01:59kind of scene? We are in a really fortunate position here in the Black

02:02Country. Within the branches of Canberra, we have the largest concentration of

02:08brewers in the area across the country, so we're still doing well and certainly

02:13if you come along to the Town Hall, you'll be able to try some of those with us.

02:16The background team there will be helping on the day. Can we get a cheers guys?

02:21Cheers!